"I've been thinking about addiction and thinking about people who are either suffering through mental illness or suffering through addiction or they have an every day struggle. No one pats them on the back every day, but every day they are actively fighting something. But there are so many days that nobody gives them credit for that. How often must somebody, who’s in that sort of internal struggle must want to say to everyone in the room, You have no idea how close I am to going back to a dark place.”
Jack Antonoff concurs speaking from the voice of the person struggling: "You guys have no idea how hard it is to get to the point where you guys think is still shitty. ... The idea of doing your best, or trying, is one that only the person knows -- and you know when you're doing it -- and it's so hard... when you're doing your damn best and it's not good enough."
Honestly, though, it IS good enough. The fighting every day to not drink or use a drug, or eat our meal plan or not gamble, or all the ways we run from ourselves. That daily fight is good enough and it leads to long-term recovery.
